Rob Witoff

Data Scientist, CTO's office @ NASA

Rob Witoff is the Data Scientist in the CTO's office at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a Y Combinator founder. He is JPL's first dedicated Data Scientist and his development team is incubating Big Data solutions supporting a variety of space, earth, infrastructure and business assets. @rwitoff

From Space to Ground: A Data Scientist’s Exploration of NASA’s Data
Track: Applied Data Science and Machine Learning

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Abstract:
Interplanetary explorations, including Curiosity’s landing on Mars and wins by other robotic explorers, have resulted in both Big Data and a big impact for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Recent advancements in technologies, coupled with the implementation of an advanced analytics initiative are rapidly connecting more of our staff to more of our data. This session explores JPL’s successes and failures starting from rapid prototypes and growing into production successes.